[H-GEN] SETI at home

[Gearon, Paul]

(Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs "Gearon, Paul" <pgea at qcom.com.au>)

> Just think about this for a minute.  If there is intelligent life
> elsewhere
> in the universe, and they had the technology to search for us before we
> searched for them, then they would have seen TV signals from Earth being
> transmitted into space.  They would have seen shows like Rikki Lake,
> General
> Hospital, Days of Our Lives and Judge Judy.  If they really ARE
> intelligent,
> then they'd make sure any transmissions they make would appear random to
> us.
> Would you like to meet extra terrestrial life and if be the ET form of
> Rikki
> Lake?  I think not!
> 
Valid point, but our transmissions have only been going out of here for less
than a century, and I doubt there's any life of significant intelligence
within that range.  So fortunately they shouldn't have heard about us yet!

Paul Gearon
Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane
mittam.  (Translation from latin: "I have a catapult. Give me all the money,
or I will fling an enormous rock at your head.") 



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